A Primer of PhilosophyJohn Murray, 1904 - 118 páginas |
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... movement is another movement ; the cause of a sound , for instance , is the movement of the air -it is nothing but another state or condition . Thus the scientists , each in his own branch , investigate the various manifestations , the ...
... movement is another movement ; the cause of a sound , for instance , is the movement of the air -it is nothing but another state or condition . Thus the scientists , each in his own branch , investigate the various manifestations , the ...
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... movement as well as of imagination and illusions , of feelings and emotions , pleasure and pain , smell and taste . Psychology inquires into the operations of the mind with a view to discover its laws and the processes by which they ...
... movement as well as of imagination and illusions , of feelings and emotions , pleasure and pain , smell and taste . Psychology inquires into the operations of the mind with a view to discover its laws and the processes by which they ...
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... movement or change of colour " ( " The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology , " p . 17 ) . § 4. The study of Psychology is older than its name , which is used for the first time towards the end of the sixteenth century . But we have ...
... movement or change of colour " ( " The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology , " p . 17 ) . § 4. The study of Psychology is older than its name , which is used for the first time towards the end of the sixteenth century . But we have ...
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... movement in objects , or from the hearing of certain sounds , accompanying the impressions with a feeling of pleasure or pain . This pleasure is called the " æsthetic " pleasure ; it is the effect of beauty , " which addresses itself ...
... movement in objects , or from the hearing of certain sounds , accompanying the impressions with a feeling of pleasure or pain . This pleasure is called the " æsthetic " pleasure ; it is the effect of beauty , " which addresses itself ...
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... movements of a sound that make it appear beautiful and harmonious , producing an impression of delight ? Is there one par- ticular ingredient common to all things that are beautiful ? Such are some of the questions with which a study of ...
... movements of a sound that make it appear beautiful and harmonious , producing an impression of delight ? Is there one par- ticular ingredient common to all things that are beautiful ? Such are some of the questions with which a study of ...
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Página 106 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, From experience. In that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 97 - The creed which accepts as the foundation ! of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 93 - Was war ein Gott, der nur von außen stieße, Im Kreis das All am Finger laufen ließe! Ihm ziemt's, die Welt im Innern zu bewegen, Natur in Sich, Sich in Natur zu hegen, So daß, was in Ihm lebt und webt und ist, Nie Seine Kraft, nie Seinen Geist vermißt.
Página 92 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, .totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Página 97 - Those who know anything about the matter are aware that every writer, from Epicurus to Bentham, who maintained the theory of utility, meant by it, not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure, but pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain ; and instead of opposing the useful to the agreeable or the ornamental, have always declared that the useful means these, among other things.
Página 64 - In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness — that which was turned within as that which was turned without — lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Man was conscious of himself only as a member of a race, people, party, family, or corporation — only through some general category.
Página 106 - All those sublime thoughts which tower above the clouds, and reach as high as heaven itself, take their rise and footing here: in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders, in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with, it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas which SENSE or REFLECTION have offered for its contemplation.
Página 99 - The utilitarian morality does recognize in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others. It only refuses to admit that the sacrifice is itself a good. A sacrifice which does not increase or tend to increase the sum total of happiness, it considers as wasted.
Página 106 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the MATERIALS of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 74 - Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our ME ; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.